Stark broadening of heavy ion spectral lines with some astrophysical applications

Description

Stark broadening is dominant mechanism of broadening for spectral lines in high-energy plasma. This book focuses on research of stellar plasma, although the results can be used in a study of laboratory plasma as well. Importance of Stark broadening of spectral lines for analysis, interpretation and synthesis of the star spectra, diagnostics, analysis and modeling of stellar plasma is considered as well as the significance of these results for research laboratory, fusion and technological plasma or laser physics. The aim is to determine the previously unknown Stark broadening parameters of the spectral lines of transition metals and lanthanides that do not exist in the literature yet, neither measured by laboratory methods nor theoretically determined, for single electrically charged ions (Co II), double electrically charged ions (Lu III), and triple electrically charged ions (Zr IV), in order to study the impact of line broadening on spectra of hot stars and white dwarfs.